Beyond Philosophy

DECEMBER 5, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Whenever the subject of employee satisfaction and engagement arises, it is often difficult to differentiate between them. If you believe that “a satisfied employee IS an engaged employee.” Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

Employee Engagement 68

Employee Engagement Engagement Consulting Culture 68

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since I assumed the chief executive role, we have targeted our efforts on continuing to grow our service footprint, but doing so in tandem with delivering excellent customer care. This is often a tough act to balance: rapidly scaling up business while still providing personalized customer service.

Customer Experience 138

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Self Service Effort Score 138

ijgolding

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It did not take long for me to start becoming interested in the customer service elements of the business. This led to me spending a lot of time in my clients stores, observing customers and how they interacted with both the products and the employees. My fascination with the ‘customer interface’ was born!

Culture 264

Culture Measurement Customer Centricity Hotels 264

Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

He offers a European perspective on employee and customer engagement and customer focus and shares interviews with top CX leaders. . With more than 30 years of experience in all areas of CX, Annette uses her blog, CX Journey, to help transform business culture to become customer-centric. Adrian Swinscoe .

Case Study 96

Case Study Customer Journeys Competitive Advantage Customer Centricity 96

NICE inContact

MARCH 26, 2019

Most contact centers share a goal of delivering excellent customer service. Disjointed policies, processes, technology and practices can all be obstacles en route to excellent customer service. Stage one — Customer-Negligent: An organization that fails to value customers as vital assets and doesn’t consider CX a priority.

Customer Experience 152

Customer Experience Contact Center Policies System 152

ShepHyken

AUGUST 29, 2018

When you treat employees like rock stars, they will treat your customers like rock stars. That is what employee engagement is all about. Great leaders have preached that when you treat your employees well, they treat their customers – and fellow employees well. And, this isn’t just for the leadership.

Employee Engagement 95

Employee Engagement Leadership Customer Service Training Culture 95

ProProfs Chat

JUNE 30, 2020

Customers wouldn’t see what you have to offer, but what you are willing to change for them. That’s the true essence of customer service experience. To help you understand this essence and develop better customer service strategies, we’ve curated a list of some of the best customer service books below.

Customer Service 85

Customer Service Handbook Customer Satisfaction Loyalty 85

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Emotional Engagement and Customer Centricity. How to Drive Customer and Employee Engagement for a Better Customer Experience. They discuss strategies for building customer centricity and emotional engagement. That means spending time on the frontlines of customer service.

Customer Centricity 75

Customer Centricity Culture Leadership Employee Engagement 75

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It has resulted in longer lines, longer hold times, and slower service – basically a lower level of customer service. . So, how can you keep good employees, and keep them not only engaged with their jobs but also engaged with their customers? The best employees don’t just work for a paycheck.

Healthcare 126

Healthcare Customer Service Training Feedback Leadership 126

ShepHyken

MARCH 21, 2017

Diana Oreck on How to Be a Customer Service Rock Star. What lessons can we learn from rock stars in the world of customer service and customer experience, like Ritz-Carlton? In these workshops, attendees are asked, “What is a quality that all customer-focused employees possess?”

Leadership 81

Leadership Hospitality Hotels Customer Focused 81

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They don’t care enough to invest in customer experience evaluation and improvement. Their company mission is not customer-focused, and they don’t care if your day is ruined. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Company 231

Company Hotels Social Media Innovation 231

Lumoa

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There are many organisations embracing a people-centric approach to business (be it employee engagement on CX or on developing strong CX programmes) but there remain a large number who fail to fully grasp the need for change. Marketing, Customer service.

Customer Experience 324

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Self Service Culture 324

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 31, 2015

As some of you who follow this blog may know, I took the CXI® magnifying glass with me to South By Southwest Interactive this month to scout for customer-focused themes within the latest tech trends. 360Connext serves mid-market companies and larger by helping them evaluate their true customer experience.

Technology 110

Technology Customer Experience Social Media Trends 110

Customer Enthusiast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Customer Service Week (Oct. Let me begin by saying that celebrating the customer is a good thing—especially when you consider that, without customers, there wouldn’t be much else to celebrate. Wouldn’t it be better to run your business as if every week was Customer Service Week? I’m no prude.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Comparison Customer Satisfaction Employee Engagement 40

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The best way to emphasize improving the Customer Experience is to tie rewards to it. It is critical to include all departments in the definition of KPIs that are Customer-focused, and then align those goals across your organization. 4 Ways to Gain Customers’ Trust in Data Security.

Net Promoter Score 118

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience CEM Customer Centricity 118

Retently

JULY 28, 2023

But taking customer experience lightly can be dangerous too. Some studies suggest that poor customer service costs businesses up to $62 million per year. trillion annually when their customers leave – and that’s only in the US. Others are less “optimistic,” saying that companies stand to lose up to $1.6

Chief Customer Officer 141

Chief Customer Officer Customer Centricity Call Center Metrics 141

Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Overlook this, however, and you are not likely to end up with the Customer focus you seek. This post is the second in a series of nine posts looking at the different parts of the organization contributing to Customer Centricity. Naïve companies are the least customer-focused and Natural companies are the most customer-focused.

Net Promoter Score 120

Net Promoter Score Customer Experience How To CEM 120

Customer Guru

AUGUST 21, 2018

DiJulius is a best-selling author of three books, a renowned keynote speaker, and an international customer experience consultant. She is a renowned expert on customer relationship management (CRM), customer service strategies, and ROI. Marketing and thought leadership programs. John Formica Follow @JohnFormica.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience Customer Journeys Consulting Customer Experience Professionals 115

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 9, 2015

I’ve seen plenty of Marketing, HR and Technology leaders who have made astounding improvements in the experiences they create for customers. Customer focused organizations smoke the competition. Whether or not your title says it, your leadership is needed! I love blogs because they tackle topics in a timely way.

Customer Experience 110

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Customer Experience Professionals Resources 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

As more leaders discuss becoming customer-centric, I wonder how many actually walk the talk and put actions into their plans. What if customer-centric ideas and tactics were included in all strategy plans ? A strategy that is truly customer customer-focused needs to include ideas like these: 1.

Customer Centricity 110

Customer Centricity Social Media Consulting Strategy 110

Russel Lolacher

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Russel chats with 4x author, keynote speaker and consultant on service culture Jeff Toister on connecting the dots to create tangible employee engagement at work. An instructor for Linkedin Learning, supporting training and employee development and more. Service Culture Book.

Employee Engagement 52

Employee Engagement Engagement How To Survey 52

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adam Toporek.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 147

Smith+co CX

JUNE 20, 2022

Earlier this month in his regular Sunday Times article , Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds (UK’s biggest hi-fi and home cinema equipment retailer) explained his award winning style of brand leadership. In his Sunday Times column, Julian spoke about the clear link between satisfied employees and satisfied customers.

Brands 36

Brands Retail Culture Leadership 36

Storyminers

JULY 6, 2020

We’re honored to be honored for our work alongside so many of our customer service and customer experience colleagues. This is especially true in the customer service industry. Customer Experience (CX) has catapulted into one of the most important aspects of determining business success. Adam Toporek.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer Service Social Media Consulting 130

ECXO

MAY 11, 2023

You’ll also probably know that the most successful companies go beyond offering quality products and services, and competitive prices, to design experiences that differentiate their brand and create emotional connections with customers. Everything they do is built around their customers. Let’s continue.

Customer Centricity 52

Customer Centricity Customer Journeys Self Service Culture 52

Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He is the co-founder and director of Genroe, a consultancy that specializes in Net Promoter®, customer feedback management, data analysis, and customer experience management. Adam Toporek is internationally renowned for his expertise as a keynote speaker, customer service expert, and front-line trainer.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Chief Customer Officer Consulting Customer Journeys 130

Lumoa

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Organizations will want quantitative justification of their investment in great customer service. Organizations will continue to look for more effective ways of gaining real-time customer intelligence rather than rear-view-mirror methods like surveys.

Customer Experience 160

Customer Experience Customer Centricity Culture Consulting 160

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Shep Hyken is a customer service expert, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling business author. For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs, go to www.thecustomerfocus.com. If you work together with your people, you can focus your efforts on fixing what’s broken.

System 147

System Customer Service Training Training Management 147

Beyond Philosophy

MAY 31, 2016

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. Today, there’s a lot of discussion among corporate strategists, and even senior HR folks, about “putting employees first”. Service, especially, is often a major differentiator and lever for either customer advocacy or, if done grudgingly or poorly, customer defection.

Company 60

Company Chief Customer Officer Employee Engagement Leadership 60

Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

CMC Thought Leadership Principal, Beyond Philosophy. For some time, it has been understood that, when purchasing a product or service, consumers are essentially ‘hiring’ a supplier to get a job done. The same can be said of employees. The challenges in this stage are employee engagement and retention.

e-support 89

e-support Banking Culture Consulting 89

Integrity Solutions

MAY 26, 2022

One of those concerns is “psychological safety,” creating psychologically safe environments for employees to speak their minds. This is a critical component of what we have always believed strong coaching and sales leadership cultures must include. Crossing a business ethical threshold can be a very slippery slope.

Sales 52

Sales Culture Leadership Brands 52

Michelli Experience

DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to Forrester Research, 93% of corporate leadership teams place customer experience improvement on their list of strategic priorities and 23% businesses have it in the number 1 position. Well, not exactly. Actually, not at all.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Customer Satisfaction Consulting Loyalty 100

Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I talk a lot about Customer-centricity of organizations. We use a model called Naïve to Natural that measures how an organization is oriented toward Customers, with the Naïve not having a Customer focus and the Natural having the most Customer focus. This is why training and employee engagement are so key to its success.

Customer Centricity 60

Customer Centricity Retail Consulting Leadership 60

CSM Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

A report by the American Customer Satisfaction Index proved that the leading companies consistently outperformed the market. Customer service leaders outper­formed the Dow by 93%, the Fortune 500 by 20% and the NASDAQ by 335%. Blind Leadership. According to service gurus, 85-95% of service problems are management related.

Company 40

Company Customer Experience Net Promoter Score Effort Score 40

ijgolding

MAY 23, 2017

Influencing any organisation to constantly focus on the critical need to remain continuously and sustainably customer focused is a never ending task. Even Old Mutual Wealth need to keep guiding their people on the journey towards sustainable customer centricity.

Customer Experience 227

Customer Experience Financial Customers Insurance 227

ClearAction

JULY 29, 2018

Keeping the aircraft clean, adjusting policies and processes, smoothing hand-offs — everything behind-the-scenes as well as customer-facing was seen in a customer-focused viewpoint. Linden said, “Anyone in a company can deliver greater value to customers by being customer-focused.

Customer Engagement 48

Customer Engagement Engagement Customer Centricity Culture 48

SurveySensum

JULY 14, 2020

Meet the Top 150 Global Customer Experience Thought Leaders and Influencers of 2020. Adam Toporek – Customer Service Expert, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Strategic Advisor . Annette Franz – Customer Experience Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author . LinkedIn : [link]. Website : [link]. LinkedIn : [link].

Customer Experience 132

Customer Experience Consulting Multi-Channel Leadership 132